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Auction: 22102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction VI - e-Auction
Lot: 89

The Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Private F. Richter, Scots Guards, presented by The King on 12 June 1901

Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein (2125 Pte F. Richter, Scots Gds:), edge bruising, very fine

Provenance:
Bosleys, 4 December 2008.

Frank Richter was born at Leeds, Yorkshire in 1880, the son of Louis Richter of 14 Middleton Avenue, Leeds. Attesting with the Scots Guards on 11 May 1898 he was posted to South Africa on 21 October 1899 for service in the Second Boer War. Taking part in some of the heaviest fighting in the Boer war as part of General Methuen's attempt to relieve Kimberly Richter's Battalion managed to force passage over the Modder River but where halted at the Battle of Magersfontein. Richter was in on the action for the successful battle of Paardeberg and finally Driefontein. Returning to Britain on 10 September 1900 he was presented his Queen's South Africa Medal by King Edward VII on 12 June 1901. Later returning to South Africa on 15 April 1902 and remaining for some months he returned to Britain again on 21 July 1902, transferring to the Army Reserve the next day. Unable to find work he went to sea and later emigrated to Canada, writing a letter to the war office to ask for his reservists pay Richter would have been disappointed to learn that as he had not reported for duty, he was not eligible for payment. Richter's name also appears on a list stating that one of his clasps had been returned to the War Office with clasps for South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 appearing on the medal roll.

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